Blog reading: fun & enjoyable or necessary evil?

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Spend any amount of time on Twitter and you’ll see tweets lamenting filled Google readers, 140 characters of apology for being behind on blog commenting, or simple announcements of “I SUCK!” all based on the fact said Tweeter hasn’t keep up with the bazillions of blog posts published daily.

Spend any time in my in-box or twitter account and you’ll see messages of:

How do you read so many blogs and make the time to comment more than just “Great post!!!”?  Aren’t you overwhelmed?

Today I’m here to share my secrets.

The method to the madness way I read blogs and have it be something I both look forward to doing and never get overwhelmed by**.

  • I dont have a Google reader. I, in fact, had no idea what a Google reader was until recently. Im still not sure how to create one and add blogs to it. Please to not enlighten me. From all I can tell said reader is nothing but a source of frazzlenessment/pressure.
  • I have a routine & I rarely deviate from it. OK so I’m a highly routinized misfit–but I find it helps me juggle work and motherhood better. I get up, meditate (always. my first appointment of the day is with myself & my G-d.), grab coffee and spend some time with all of you.  I let my day take shape through reading about how your lives are shaping up (literally & figuratively).
  • I pick a blog, start reading, & click around from there. Ive been asked repeatedly if I have a schedule and read certain blogs on specific days.  I long to be that organized in my LIFE let alone in my blog reading! I start with a random a blog, click on comments or a blog-roll link and read, read, read.  I like it that way as Im always discovering new bloggers in the process.
  • When the coffee is done—the blog reading is done. OK, so Im not a fast coffee drinker, but you get the point.  I tend to sip & read for about 45 minutes each morning.  Some days more.  Other days, when life gets crazy earlier than planned, less.
  • I do my best and Ive decided that is enough. Of course I see people tweeting/FBing new posts and am wholly intrigued.  Yes, I feel a twinge when people tweet new posts at me and ask my thoughts.  I’ve decided, however, that what I can do, enjoy (see bullet below as well) and be present while reading is time spent in the morning.  Anything I miss I bookmark and read the next day.  It’s the best I can do with the myriad roles I play and, for me, it is enough.
  • I really, really enjoy it. I love following your journeys.  I adore cheering you on.  Im  honored when I can lend a hand & type a sentence or 10 which may help yank you out of a slump.  I selfishly steal your motivation during the mornings mine is lacking.  I never comment on a blog in hopes you come here &  leave a comment in return (the ole blogTIT fer blogTAT scenario.  though I do love me some TAT…). I fear if I attempted to read every.single.post. or filled my every.spare.moment. with blog reading Id lose that feeling.  I’d be really, really sad to lose that feeling.

And, as always, that’s just how I see it.

Do you have a Google reader & find it to be a lifesaver?

Do you graze on posts throughout the day & find that approach works best?

Do you long for this post to be over so you can click away! click away! & get to another blog already?!

Please to hit us up in the comments below.

 

**I feel compelled to clarify there are myriad things in my life I do find fraught with overwhelmnessment.  That, however, is an entirely different post.

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Comments

  1. I love this post Miz!
    I can feel really overwhelmed by all the blogs I want to read some days and that’s a big reason why I have never started my own.

  2. I have a reader Miz and I love it!
    I wouldn’t ever be able to remember which blogs I like without it and when it’s filled sometimes I just delete 🙂

  3. Thank you for writing about this Miz.
    I clicked right over when I saw the title 🙂

    I really get overwhelmed by all the blog posts and feeling pressure to read and comment.

    I worry if I don’t do this that no one will ready my blog and comment.

    It can be so time consuming!!

  4. Miz, I get up every day with my coffee and sit and read my Google Reader blogs. Yes, I use GR it helps keep them organized and I have my FAVs at the top.

    Some times it can be overwhelming when you see all the “unread” blogs in the GR screen. Weekends I probably spend 3 hours reading. I love it, motivates me to keep going and especially the ladies that share their workouts!

  5. People really tweet their posts to you?!

    I think I will steal your concept of the coffee done the reading done 🙂

    I read posts during lunch usually and it can make me feel frantic.
    Sometimes I feel like the more I read the more there are.
    Form now on I am going to think: lunch is done reading is done and be ok with that.

  6. I also use one blog as a starting point and then click from there to meet up with the familiar and some new peeps. It’s easy that way.

  7. This is one reason I haven’t started blogging yet!
    There are so many great ones already—who would read mine? LOL

  8. Back when I had just one child who napped twice a day, I used to read up to 10 blogs a day. Some first thing in the morning, a couple during nap times, I may have even sneaked in some time while she was in her jumparoo. Now that I have two kids, one of them not napping at all, I barely read blogs. The only one I read regularly is The Great Fitness Experiment and I just pop over to others (more and more often yours) every now and then when I have time. I have enough things pulling at me now (such as the array of perrier bottles and water glasses left over from the weekend that are staring at me right now) I don’t need more things to feel I “must” do.
    I have a google reader…I never look at it though. If a blog really speaks to me, I’ll remember it and go back. I generally don’t need to read every word someone has written as soon as they’ve posted it.

  9. How do you get so many early morning comments??

    I get really overwhelmed by all the posts and feel as Lara does: I would like to blog but who would have the time for another blog to read and what do I have to add?

  10. I do the Google Reader AND the random clicking approach. (Being unemployed does have its advantages.) As a rule, though, I usually limit my reading/commenting to an hour or so a day. That time may get shorter as the days get warmer. 🙂

  12. “I do my best and I’ve decided that’s enough.” Love this line! Thank you for sharing … because it’s not just applicable to blog post reading! As I read that while sipping my morning coffee, I already felt in a better place to start the week!

    -Amy
    http://www.amymoritz.com

  13. I use Google Reader to keep up with my favorites and then of course I’m always discovering fabulous new blogs. It actually doesn’t take up that much time, but if you miss a few days, they can pile up.

  14. I’ve never had a google reader. I have some blogs bookmarked and I check those. And I love that ‘clicking around’ from comments you see, or other’s favorites on their side bar.

    I love that you always have your meditation time first. Have to admit that is not always my habit. On my best days it is.

  15. What a great idea! I may have to give that way a try! 🙂 As I have been lagging on my reading and not enjoying it so much. That’s a great way to be introduced to new bloggers too! You so smart. 😉

  17. Great post MizFit!! We read a lot of bloggers, do have google reader. Although when we first heard of blogs and started reading them, we did not really understand them. It was just something we ran into when searching for things on the web. But over time there were some blogs that we really enjoyed, so one day we said we will start one. Share on health journey. Anyways, I agree with that blogging can be very enjoyable, although stressful too.

  18. I will say, its definitely taken time to get it down to a reasonable level where I ENJOY it. I don’t just comment to comment. There are people I feel connected to or just love their content and I have to voice my opinion! I have google reader, but the list in my reader is constantly changing. There are blogs that have been there forever ever i.e. MizFit 😉 and some that have come and gone. It is easy to let it suck up alllll your time

  19. No, I don’t use Google Reader. I read blogs when I can and have the time and most of the time I comment via Facebook. I enjoy it too and kind of miss when we were all Blogging Buddies and did secret blog pal and I had you and Emma.

  20. Carla, very interesting post & info I longed to know! 😉 I don’t do Google reader either. I do subscribe to blogs thst let me do it by email notification. Not all do but that is what I prefer – email – so for those I don’t want to miss, I do that although many posts get to me 8 hours after it is posted. For the others, I just try to remember to stop by & my memory is not always the best! 😉 I want to read & comment on all but it is just not possible… some days are better than others & if I find a job, I fear that will be it for blogging for me…

    You are great Carla – you do well with your limited time!

  21. I don’t get so much overwhelmed as I feel like an addict. Been feeling that with with the FB and blogs, so I am taking a break from the former. Before I did that, I went through my friends list and cleaned house (seriously…100 people gone! LIBERATING!!!) and did the same with my blog reader. Now I know the time I spend going through blogs isn’t because I feel obligated to read them, it’s because I want to. Because and I know and love these people, feel inspired, lifted up, or just laugh my ass off. And look-ey here…I have the time to comment on the ones I love the most!

  22. So funny because I was thinking how much I sucked at commenting just this weekend. Confessing I have ADHD and the attention span of a toddler, I feel like maybe google reader is a good idea for me to try? Maybe. So glad I read this (you’re awesome)..my first blog reading of the Monday and I’m going from here!

  23. Fun&Enjoyable, i thank the IT smarts for placing the next button on blogspot, read one, hit next, read again discover a whole world of thoughts within a matter of clicks/minutes..i enjoy using my rss feed and read it later buttons as well, this way i can start reading a post and finish it later.. i also have a fixed set of blogs i read every day. THANKS! HAVE A NICE DAY 🙂

  24. I love blog reading too.

    I just feel sometimes like it is the tit for tat when it comes to leaving comments.

    I can’t keep up.

  25. So interesting to hear how someone else does it. I uber-depend on my google reader. Even blogs I read every post I don’t think to visit until the pop up in the reader. And I love that when someone does not have a consistent schedule or takes a long break, the reader lets me know when there is a new post.

    I used to read blogs first thing every day. After clearing out my email. I felt pressured by that reader. But I finally realized that the timing was not best and some days don’t get to blogs until later.

    One of the reason I cut back on my own blogging months ago was to have more time to read and comment on others. I love the whole community thing and for me, this is a big part of it.

  28. I use Google Reader and while I love that I can star posts for later, it does get overwhelming when I haven’t opened it in a day and most bloggers post three times a day. I love reading the blogs, but I’ll look at the reader and think, “I’m so behind!” And since I don’t really read blogs or tweet or anything over the weekend, I come back to 200 posts on Monday. Marking all as read and starting with a clean Reader is tempting.

    I like your method a lot.

  29. I like the grazing. 🙂 However there are some that I will visit with more regularity and then I’m off to something else. I don’t just read the weightloss/getfit sphere. I listen to lots of different voices. On that note, do you ever hear a persons voice when they blog? It may seem odd, but (even though I read lots of folks) I hear different voices for just about every one of them. What’s neat is when they post a v-log and I hear their actual voice and it matches up to the one I already have in my head for them. Weird it’s usually right most of the time too. On the chance it’s not I store their voice away in my mind for future reading. 😀 Merry Monday!

  31. I use my Google Reader all the time, with usually around 20-30 subscriptions on there. I like some of the suggestions for new content it gives me, and if someone’s blog RSS feed just streams a blurb instead of a full article to my Reader, I don’t read their blog. For the “random clicking” stuff I don’t have the focus to read everything, so I use the Instapaper iPhone app to save articles for later.

  33. Thank you for sharing your method of blog reading. I’d like to give your style a try. I currently use Google Reader, and while it does help me stay organized, it can also cause major headaches and feelings of guilt. I want blog reading to remain something I truly enjoy!

  34. I do use Google reader and I do hate that number of unread posts staring back at me some days. But the blogs I read fall into many categories and only a dozen or so are actually people I have feel like I have a relationship with (that makes me sad considering how different it was when I started blogging) – people who might care about hearing my thoughts in a comment (or at least care about hearing from me). I often go through and mark all read on the blogs that I feel no relationship to (cooking blogs, crafty blogs, random funny mommy blogs) but I keep unread the ones that I want to go back and read. I wait until it feels like a pleasure instead of a job.
    I also don’t comment on each post. I only comment when I have something to say – occasionally that is just a “great post” if so moved but usually I ramble on a bit like this. 🙂

  35. If blogging/reading blogs was a necessary evil, I wouldn’t do it…too many other true necessary evils out there (bill paying, trip to the dentist, gyno, mammo…). I enjoy the blogs that I read, and I DO read a lot. I don’t do Google reader – I rely on bookmarks, “following” that show up in my blogger dashboard, and blog-skipping. That said, I have my regulars, that I read and comment on almost always – but that’s less than 20, and they don’t post every day. The others? Are my “at leisure” reads – I comment if I have something to say, but I don’t force it.

    I would hate to look at a bunch of blogs and think negatively about “having” to read them – that isn’t what this is about, to me. Btw, I appreciate that you leave personalized comments. 🙂

  36. Hi Miz!

    Thanks for this post.
    I have been a blogger for almost six years and would be lying if I didn’t admit to commenting feeling like work some days.

    I really enjoy the process of writing my posts and creating the visuals and many days I feel like it is part of my job to comment.

    That is not necessarily a bad thing it is just how I feel.

  37. I used BlogLines for years to read blogs (had over 2000 in there at one point) and can’t for the life of me figure out Google reader. And the new way of reading BlogLInes won’t let me add blogs. So I’m rather screwed when it comes to reading through a reader.

    But I click through and read random blogs – and read interesting comments and other blogs. This is how I’ve read for years. (and how I found great blogs and made some real life friends). So it’s what I do. I may not be a regular on many blogs, but I’m a grazer worth knowing.

    Or maybe I’m just a floundering reader without an easy reader to my name.

  38. Some days I’m good about reading. Some days I’m good about reading and commenting. And some days I totally suck at both. I rarely, if ever, go into my Google Reader. Pretty much can’t stand the thing. Love to hop on Twitter in the morning and find groovy new blog posts when people tweet them out. The morning Twitter crowd is probably my favorite! For tweeting with and for finding cool stuff to read.

  39. Great timing on this. First I will just gloss over the “I love Tat” comment so as to keep this blog g-rated. 😉

    I JUST butchered my Google reader which, when I let it, was becoming a source of more things to accomplish that I could never keep up with.

    Lately, due to life taking over, I’ve stepped back from blogging and reading and usually only read the blogs of my real-life friends or people I see ‘around’ the sphere if something happens to catch my eye. Oh and Joanna Sutter because I heart her and because her posts actually come into my email (big, big difference as to whether or not I read something!) There are just far too many good blogs to keep up with- there aren’t enough hours in the day.

    Thanks for this post- great to see how others do it.

  40. I LOVE Reading blogs, and I love commenting, I love getting comments..it’s part of the process to connect…I get overwhelmed, I have normal blog troll but also have a spreadsheet categorized by interest “running, weight loss, moms, dads..” it’s geeky but it helps when I am in the mood to read a lot!

  41. Here’s the thing, when I get too overwhelmed on my google reader I hit “mark all as read” and start fresh the next day. Most bloggers have linkedin where I can go and read a post, and if there are more interesting posts on linkedin I will read those too.

    But, all in all, I really enjoy reading other people’s blog posts and talking to them on twitter. It’s a nice social thing (much more than I thought it would be when I started blogging!) I had no clue!

  42. This is one place where i had to set a limit. There are certain blogs i follow. If i have time, i read others. If not, i don’t. There is only so much time in a day, and it could all be spent doing one activity, but that wouldn’t get the rest of the work done.

  43. Google reader has speed my process up. I try to read only once a day. It is quick and all right in front of me. But it is difficult to comment. I wish you could comment with the reader. In order to comment I have to find the blog, find the post, etc. Time consuming and I have so little time. I really get so few chances to comment.

  44. I am stealing the idea of doing my best and that is enough.

    Forget blogging—for life!
    🙂

  45. I do my best too, and it just has to be enough. I’m so thankful for every comment I receive because they’re almost always filled with support and encouragement. I’m also humbled that anyone takes time to read what I say. It’s awesome. =0)

    I can’t stand google-reader…just saying.

  46. I love my Google Reader. (In fact, it never occurred to me that people can do it any other way!) But I definitely don’t pay attention to the bold indicating what hasn’t been read, so it doesn’t overwhelm me — it just keeps me organized. I find I naturally scroll down and hit certain people every day because they never disappoint, then a few others I just scan their headlines and read the ones that interest me. I usually give myself a time limit, too — like an hour in the afternoon on a given topic.

    Great post!

  47. Love this post, the inside peek, too. I don’t use GR either. I tend to follow my Blogroll, which shows when there is a new post. But I can’t even keep up with that anymore.

    I love how you DECIDED it was enough… and limited it to what you truly enjoyed. I LOVE that approach. And am going to be a copycat, LOL!

    I was feeling guilty for not being able to keep up… so many people leave such supportive comments at times, and I wanted to go to each one and give support back. And I just can’t keep up, and do feel overwhelmed at times.

    So from now on… I am a mizfit copycat… I will decide that I will visit the few I can, enjoy it, give back what I can, and it is enough.

    Enough it is
    It is enough
    Anything more
    Would be too tough

    LOL!
    Loretta
    =^..^=

  48. I do use Google Reader and I like it. I don’t really have much time to read the blogs I like when I’m at home, but I use my breaks and lunchtime at work to read them on my Blackberry. With the Google Reader, I can either read one blog post after post, or just start in with the most recent entries posted and keep going. I really enjoy reading blogs, and if I stop enjoying one, I unsubscribe from it.

  49. I think if I didn’t feel I should read I’d enjoy it more.
    I am afraid of hurting people’s feelings 🙁

  50. Interesting you posted this since I have been wondering the same thing. I have been feeling overwhelmed lately by trying to read so many blogs. I am just getting into it and interested in getting my own blog started but still trying to figure out all the technical aspects. Trying to read other blogs for ideas of how to set up and manage a blog. But I feel overwhelmed by it all and in the end haven’t even been able to get my own blog started. I don’t even know what a google reader is. Do you erase the bookmarks after you read the blog post then? I need to clean out my bookmarks. I also would like to know how others manage their time on facebook and twitter? I just find myself getting sucked in trying to keep up with so many people. Any ideas? I don’t want to take time away from my family which is what I feel like I have been doing lately.

  51. I love my Google Reader. I have a lot of blogs in there that post very infrequently, and it saves me the trouble of checking them. It also makes it easy to scan new posts and decide which ones I want to read – and which ones I haven’t read. And if there’s one that I want to revisit later (for whatever reason), I can either mark it as unread or star it, and then I don’t have to remember or clog up my bookmarks (where I’ll forget it), etc. It also lets me email posts right from the Reader, which is handy when I want to share something with my husband or a friend.

    Now, if I don’t have time to read for a few days, then it does back up. But I just go through, mark-as-read the ones I’m not interested in reading, mark-as-read the ones that are link roundups (those don’t make the cut when I’m short on time) and get to the others as time permits. Even when it backs up, it is rarely overwhelming.

    The few times it has been overwhelming, I reminded myself that they’re just blogs, and I could mark ALL as read, and it would be OK.

    Also, if there is a blog that I notice I’m marking all as read and not really reading, I unsubscribe. The “what if I miss something?!” that used to keep me subscribed to everything (both blogs and email lists) has been tamed.

  52. So, so true! I still get anxiety if I don’t get to all my blogs I love because It’s my contact to the “outside world.” Yet when I take the time to ignore the computer and snuggle with a book, the dogs or Hunni I am more relaxed and appreciate what I do read than pressured to get it all in.

  53. I saw your tweet and hate to be anonymous, but….
    I do feel as if commenting is my second job some days.
    I wish I could get back to reading and enjoying it I just get afraid if i don’t comment no one will read my blog.
    I sound crazy 😉

  54. I upgraded from Google Reader to RSSOwl. I read and comment on a lot of blogs, but only when I can. If I don’t have time, then I don’t feel bad about it. Some blog posts are long, and reading several a day turns out to be the equivelant of a novel a day. It’s too much after awhile, so I visit when I can. I wish I had more hours in a day. 🙂

  56. I’m definitely a “do my best” kind of girl. I DO have a Reader – it helps me keep up with the bloggers I have a close connection with. But if it gets a bit clogged up, I don’t feel guilty about clicking on “mark all as read” and just clearing the darn thing out.

    I don’t comment as much as I’d like, but until someone finds a way to squeeze an extra hour or two into a day, I’ll just have to live with that.

  57. I may have a Google reader, but I don’t know how to use it, nor do I want to know.

    I have the blogs I read on my blog and I read them as they are updated. While at those blogs, if I see a interesting comment, I will check out new blogs.

    I don’t always leave comments, but I do love to read…sometimes three or four people have already said the same thing I would, so I don’t bother repeating it again.

    I don’t have a set time…but it is usually after work…never in the morning unless it is the weekend.

  58. Thank you for posting this. I do have a reader and sometimes feel overwhelmed. I do try to comment regularly on people who have developed a deeper connection with through email and such.

    I really like your approach to following a rabbit trail for 45 minutes. That sounds like fun and I might give that a try along with my regular reading.

  59. You crack me up Carla 🙂 I know you and many others here don’t want to be enlightened but the time saved from clicking through to blogs just to see if it’s been updated and finding there’s nobody home is a godsend. And if someone doesn’t show up in my reader, i know they’ve not updated. saves a helluva lot of time and clicks 🙂

    I can also view new posts in List view, i.e. you can see the title and first snippet of a post, and if it’s not of interesti move on to the next one (i do this with magazine-y kind of blogs).

    I think when people are overwhelmed by their google readers its time to take a look at your susbscriptions and decide if you need to subscribe to so many. i’ve finally accepted that i am only one person and there is only so much information one person can absorb; so many meaningful connections one can make before the brain explodes 🙂

  60. I tend to click the posts I see people tweeting that look interesting to me in the morning. When time runs out, if I still have some open that I haven’t finished with I may leave them up and finish them later. Also might click something later if it looks interesting, but I usually don’t look at any more until morning.

  61. I really **want** to ditch my reader. I’ve been thinking about it for a while. I could easily just bookmark my faves and read them when I have time. I actually think it would make blog reading more enjoyable. Sort of like how I enjoy running until I have to train for a race. =)

  62. I.Love.YOU.

    I was just musing with my friend about you yesterday. And how you did it all. I’m glad to know. Still. How on earth can you deal with 1/10 of the people that comment on your posts in 45 minutes?

    But yes. 1 hour is what I do too. It’s easier if I am able to continue to do so. No buildup means I get more time to comment. 🙂

  63. I really love to read blogs, but i really feel bad when I don’t get to for awhile or I don’t get to read everyone who has been commenting because I know how much I appreciate their comments

  64. Thanks so much for sharing this. There are so many posts each day it makes me wish everyone just tweeted 😉

  65. I use Google Reader at night for the ones I can’t miss in addition to clicking randomly during the day from tweets. My main frustration is feeling like I’m missing so many good blogs. I’m about to read through your comments to try to get ideas for how to handle this!

  66. I’m the number one worst blog commenter on the face of the planet. Seriously, I such at it really bad.

    Lots of times I think “I don’t have anything valuable to add” and “Great Post” is just kind of annoying to me so I stay silent. Then I think back to a lot of the comments that have been left on my blog and I’ve never thought less of anyone who left a comment just because all they had to say is “Great Post.” I’ll probably start commenting whether I have something profound to say or not, just so people know I’m reading and enjoying.

    I have the Google Reader which means I look at the piling number of posts once a week and then click “Mark All As Read.” It does me absolutely no good at all. It would probably work if reading/commenting were higher on my priority list, but as is, it doesn’t really work.

    Making the time is where I fall short so I guess I just gotta check myself to see if it’s an important of what I want to accomplish.

    “GREAT POST!”

  67. I have a limited number of blogs in my google reader (like less than 10) and I would totally love to have a similar structure as you. It is pretty close now but I do find myself reading blogs when I need a mental break or when someone sends out an awesome link on twitter or FB. I have also taken to only commenting when I actually have something to say and have removed all pressure on myself to comment just for the sake of commenting. I think comparing ourselves to that just sets us up for feeling like we aren’t enough, when in fact we are – no matter what.

  68. It’s taken me this long to read this post, and I only did now b/c someone retweeted it, but it is waiting for me in bold in my Google Reader. 🙂

    Like Shauna, I love my GR. It makes it quick and easy without having to find and enter links or keep a zillion bookmarks. I have them somewhat organized and prioritized with “IRL” friends on top. I also like it because it helps me notice when someone hasn’t written a new article in a while and I can ceck up on them.

    As for commenting, I can’t/won’t if I am reading from my iPhone because I hate typing in all that info over and over again (my computer has autofill, I guess). And, I might not comment if mine will be the 87th comment (I’m only 67th here!). Or, if I just don’t have anything to say (rare, but it happens!)

    My question: Do you read all of the comments before your comment or do you just read the post and comment yourself?
    I would like to read previous comments so I am joining in the conversation and won’t be repetitive, but that can take even more time.

  69. I used to have soooo many blogs in google reader. Then I stopped. I cut it down to just a few that I want to read every day, every post. There are less than 10. So beyond that I go your route and do the random blog hopping and commenting thing. Although sometimes I’ll just blog hop and read and not comment. It just depends on how I feel that day.

  70. My Google Reader makes me feel guilty. I’ve had to ignore it to be productive. It’s nice on the weekends to lie in bed and treat it like a newspaper or such, but otherwise it doesn’t work in my weekly work day schedule. You have a system that works well for you, keep it up!!

  71. I LOVE it!! If I find a blog I love and want to be a regular follower of, I will put it on my blog roll and when I can (everyother day or so) I go through my blog roll one by one and read and comment, I know I miss some and I know that by not doing it daily I don’t keep up all the way, but it helps me stay sane. I drink coffee ALL day, so that’s out. 🙂 Hugs, yours is the best!!

  72. Necessary and enjoyable I believe. No way, NONE at all, that i would have made the progress I have without doing this. Could I have done it without blogging, sure. WOuld I, NO. Why? Well you didn’t ask that but I’ll answer anyhow… I don’t know. For whatever reason THIS has done more to amp up my knowledge and drive up my desire than anything tried before by me. Ok, I really do know why. Blogging ‘engages’ me at a deeper level of commitment than not blogging. Engage + Opportunity = Success.

  73. I really love blogging and wish I had more time to spend reading everyone’s stories. I don’t read everyone’s everyday, but it’s great to keep track of people I have an electronic friendship with, and cheer them on!! Have a great day!

  74. I have a reader and don’t know what I would do without it! Like you, I designate a certain time for reading other blogs – for me, it is at night… usually late at night because I am a night owl and oh, so NOT anything close to a morning person. 🙂

  75. “Though I do love me some tat” – ROFL! As one of the people who sent you one of those “how do you do it all?” e-mails it’s great to read this post! Thanks for being a part of my journey for so long and thanks for letting me be a part of yours. I heart you!

  76. I started using Google Reader about 2 months ago and have to say, I really love it – even though I was totally convinced that I would hate it and be overwhelmed. Once I got all my blogs organized by topic, I find it so easy to click my way though. Blog reading, in my opinion, is the best way to start the day!

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